The evening of the 22 April 2005 was very calm and almost with very low humidity. Most impressing however was the phantastic seeing. For minutes Jupiter could be seen without any movement and warbling on the screen. This produced my best Jupiter images so far. After imaging Jupiter I took some Moon shots of Schroeter Valley and Schiller Crater.
Last update: 16 May 2005
JUPITER
21 April 2005 4th AVI FIle reworked
Instrument: C8 on GP with 25mm Ploessl projection
Imaging: ToUcam I; ca 75% of 1800 images at 10 fps (frames per second)(320x240 mode)
Location: Schwedeneck / Germany
This time I stacked the images again with Registax 3. Then the result was saved as three separate FITS image. These images were loaded into AIP4WIN, where I made the following things
- Remove offset (shift pixel values from negative to 0).
- Flip image (AIP seems to have an error here.
- Divide by 2 to have some margin in the higher pixel values.
- Apply gamma value of ca 0.45
- Van Cittert deconvolution with Radius = 4 and 25 iterations.
- Some slight Unsharp Masking Radius = 3 Contrast = 2.
- Repeat until here for RGB images.
- RGB combination an some brightness adjustment
- Download Stacked RAW Files (FITS Format from Registax 3) for your own experiments. Maybe you will get better results. Then let me know please.
- RED COMPONENT
- GREEN COMPONENT
- BLUE COMPONENT
I have seen better "Jupiters" than mine here taken with a C8. Nothing is perfect - perhaps the collimination has to be improved at first. This I had done only very roughly.
JUPITER
21 April 2005 22.00 MEZ/CET
Instrument: C8 on GP with 25mm Ploessl projection
Imaging: ToUcam I; ca 75% of 1800 images at 10 fps (frames per second)(320x240 mode)
Location: Schwedeneck / Germany
Treatment: Stacking with Registax, Optimizing with IRIS.
JUPITER
21 April 2005 22.00 MEZ/CET (Same image as above)
Instrument: C8 on GP with 25mm Ploessl projection
Imaging: ToUcam I; ca 75% of 1800 images at 10 fps (frames per second)(320x240 mode)
Location: Schwedeneck / Germany
Treatment: Stacking with Registax, Careful optimizing with AIP4WIN 1.4
Image processing with AIP4WIN from RAW image (stack by Registax 3 and Richardson-Lucy Deconvolution 2nd row.
JUPITER
21 April 2005 22.11 MEZ/CET
Instrument: C8 on GP with 25mm Ploessl projection
Imaging: ToUcam I; ca 75% of 1800 images at 10 fps (frames per second) (640x480 mode)
Location: Schwedeneck / Germany
MOON / Schroeter Valley
21 April 2005 22.40 MEZ/CET
Instrument: C8 on GP with 25mm Ploessl projection
Imaging: ToUcam I; ca 60% of 1800 images at 10 fps (frames per second)(640x480 mode)
Location: Schwedeneck / Germany
MOON / Schiller Crater
21 April 2005 22.34 MEZ/CET
Instrument: C8 on GP with 25mm Ploessl projection
Imaging: ToUcam I; ca 40% of 1800 images at 10 fps (frames per second) (640x480 mode)
Location: Schwedeneck / Germany